Category Archives: Bakery

What’s up in my Kitchen: September 2016 edition

Another month, not in MY kitchen but in my friend’s kitchen. I already told you about Vicki’s beautiful pineapple house. Let me show you what was going on in her kitchen while I was there visiting. Picture that: 2 food bloggers in the same kitchen inspiring each other and cooking for the family.

North Queensland offers a lot of tropical giants and juicy fruits. I was amazed by the tropical fruits and veggies. The farmer market was a very nice walk.

Above are actually green beans called snake beans! How funny! They are 4x longer than the usual ones I get in France.

The next pic is of a very decadent donuts, you can inject chocolate with a seringe in the middle! So attractive that they sold out all the cakes by 11 o’clock!

Also, we were lucky enough to be invited at Vicki’s lovely neighbor party. They had a pig (the entire 33kg pig) slowly cooked in a wooden box. It was an incredible thing to see. You really have to know your business to cut that pig into pieces. The meat was very tender and tasty. It might looks a bit strange on the picture but it was delicious.

I had the chance to have a slow cooker tasting beef stew from our friend Sammie recipe. Now I want a slow cooker of course!!!! I’m such a child when it comes to kitchen toys!

I cooked a Salmon Blanquette for my lovely aussie foster family.

I even cooked some Tomato and Feta Clafoutis for the kids lunch box.

Passion Fruit Jam Recipe

Just a little recipe to finish this post. I’ll definitly plant and grow those fruits when I can. They make a very original and tasty jam.

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French Patisserie perfect pie crust

Pâte Sucrée

This is one of the best french pâtisserie heritage! Well, in my chauvinist opinion… As you have to bake it seperatly and before garnishing it, it stays very crusty and you’ll get the perfect combo between crust and cream and fruits or whatever your garnment is!

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Sydney’s Bakery Class for my Clever Cookies Bloggers Friends

Blogging Magic part 2

International Blogosphere

Do you remember this ? I wrote about the best part of blogging: making friends around the world ! The even better part than the best part is to meet the friends from all around the world. We organised a french bakery class in Sydney . I met all those lovely ladies through our Clever Cookie Blogging Class organised by Chantelle and Rowe . They were the best teachers and the community of bloggers around them is lovely.

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I love blueberries. We don’t have many of those precious in my region, especially fresh ones are soooo expensive. So I used frozen blueberries.

Recently I made 2 versions of the blueberry pie. I used the same crust, « pâte sucrée ». (My perfect crust pie recipe here). But I changed the cream. Today I’ll share with you the very good passion fruit diplomate cream.

What is a diplomate cream? It’s basicaly a pastry cream combined with chantilly. Sounds delicious? Yeah!!! Diplomate cream is usually flavored with vanilla. So this is an exotic one!

I wanted to try to combine the sweetness of blueberries with a sour fruit. My first guess was lemon custard. But afterwards I saw in my freezer some passion fruit purée. Let’s try this!

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Double Chocolate Slice

Hello my friends.

Easter is coming. What about a nice slice Double chocolate recipe? And … No bake !!

I decorated it with candies goal Malteser You Could able Some chocolate eggs on top of it. I Was totally inspired by our hosting ladies and something really good cam up. Thanks Lauren and Danielle , you inspired me.

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Do you know those chocolate biscuits called Reese’s? It’s basically a chocolate cup filled with peanut butter. The adventurer husband discovered those chocolate biscuits on his first trip to the US. Since that, he has been dreaming of eating them. When we were travelling in Canada, he was so happy to find them. I tried for the first time to make homemade Reese’s. I spent a few hours minutes browsing pinterest to mix some recipes.